2013 Goals...to run at least one race every month

A little back story to kick this blog off.  We have been married since 2007.  We met in the good old marching band at the University of Tennessee.  Band Nerds.

Ben - works in the corporate world by day and is a musician and brew master by night. He drinks beer. He has always "drank the beer".  Except for a brief time each fall when he drinks "Touchdown Juice" aka Jack Daniels.

Jenn - works during the day and drinks margaritas, fights her curly hair, and plays with the doggie by night.   Her first purchase of booze was a handle of Jose Cuervo tequila.  She drank so much of it it made her sick and swear off tequila forever.  Turns out forever was only the rest of college until she could afford "non-$1 beer or $5 pitcher" drinks.

We've both run off and on for a couple years now. The first run we did together was a 5K where Jenn had to stop to tie her shoe and said she'd catch up to Ben.  She sprinted towards him as he had stopped maybe 50 feet ahead and she expected him to catch her and swing her around in the movies.  That didn't quite happen. He lowered his shoulder like he was stopping the winning touchdown run in the Superbowl and busted my nose open.  We finished the 5K with me and my bloody nose.

This year we decided to run at least one race every month for 2013.  If we ran two one month, we still had to run another one we couldn't roll over runs.That's what me and the hubs decided this year.  We would run at least one race every month.  Now we knew we had some already planned, Disney Princess Half in February, Warrior Dash in May and Tough Mudder at some point in the year so it couldn't be that hard to fill in the rest right?

Well we decided this about 2 weeks into January, so we had to hustle to find one in January.  Fortunately we found the Zoo Run Run in at the Nashville Zoo!  Naturally, given our names, we try to choose runs where we are rewarded with booze afterwards.  This race was right up our alley.  In the past local brewery "Blackstone" had served their beers and you get one free beer.  Unfortunately for us, this year Mich Ultra was the sponsor.  Gag.  Naturally we thought it necessary to try this new restaurant in town that has two sides of their milkshake menu, regular, and spiked.  Ben had a Reese's Cup infused vodka milkshake and I had a Black Russian Milkshake.  But we were one run down with 11 months to go.

You know why flamingos stand on one leg?  If they lifted the other they'd fall down!